Society as a whole doesn’t put enough weight on the significance of a good night’s sleep. Today’s hectic and high-tech lifestyle is not geared towards allowing people to get enough healthy and restful sleep. Gruelling 60-hour work weeks, 24-hour shopping and exercise facilities, and incessant access to television and the internet make getting sufficient sleep a challenge.
Physical and emotional illnesses, relationship difficulties, loss of work-based productivity, accidents, drug and/or alcohol dependence are often linked to sleep deprivation. Here, I will talk about the causal effect of good sleeping habits and high work productivity. (more…)